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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?
(a) His parents' love.
(b) His toys.
(c) His mother's body.
(d) His father.

2. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?
(a) A necessary stage in natural selection.
(b) A metaphor.
(c) A stage in childhood development.
(d) A literary device.

3. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Sexual desires.
(c) Fears.
(d) Biological needs.

4. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?
(a) Evil.
(b) Anti-social.
(c) Angry.
(d) Depressed.

5. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?
(a) Lawlessness and insubordination.
(b) Denial and hatred.
(c) Religion and morality.
(d) Rejection and fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?

2. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?

3. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?

4. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?

5. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?

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